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Julianna Barwick has kept busy with a multitude of projects, performances, and more in the last year or so. Today we’re excited to share one of them with you! Julianna has written and performed the original score for director Zia Anger’s latest film, I Remember Nothing. The film follows the day in a life of a student, named Joan, who’s unaware she’s epileptic. To reflect the phases of a seizure, I Remember Nothing is structured in five sections. The cast features Lola Kirke(Mistress America, Gone Girl), Michael Cavadis (Wonder Boys, Girls), India Menuez (Up In The Air, Uncertain Terms), Adinah Dacynger (Uncertain Terms) and Poet Robert Kelly.

Julianna Barwick and Zia Anger have been collaborators for some time. She’s also directed music videos for Julianna, including the video for “One Half“. You could argue it was second nature, an “ah, of course!” moment for Zia to create a film with Julianna in mind. Here’s what Zia had to say about Julianna’s involvement,

“I wrote ‘I Remember Nothing’ knowing that Julianna would score the piece. The score was always meant to be this 6th and final piece of the main character of Joan (the other 5 being represented by on screen actresses.) When she was writing the score there was a moment where we actually sat down and I gave her direction, similar to the way I would direct actors. It was really a fascinating experience to say the least.”

Here’s a late new year’s gift to all the Julianna Barwick fans out there! KEXP has shared her in-studio session which includes an interview plus songs “Crystal Lake”, “Look Into Your Own Mind”, “Forever”, “One Half”, and “Full Performance”. Watch the entire session above or here on YouTube.

Click read more to see individual videos for each of the songs and her tour dates later this month starting in Indianapolis on the 26th!

Julianna Barwick has had a busy Fall releasing her new album Nepenthe, opening for Sigur Ros on their North American tour, and playing the opening night party of Pitchfork Festival Paris just a few weeks ago.

Today, she releases the second music video from her debut album, Nepenthe, for the song “The Harbinger”. The video, made with her constant collaborator, director Derrick Belcham and premiered today on Pitchfork, beautifully captures the song’s celestial qualities and can be seen above or here on our Youtube channel.

On the video, director Belcham notes, “The video illustrates a moment in which an individual makes a sudden choice which they know will change their life forever, for better or worse, and the freedom that this affords them, liberating or oppressive. It is a non-linear illustration of catharsis.”

Click read more to see Belcham’s other videos he has produced with Julianna and ticket links to Julianna’s West Coast tour dates including a stop at The Flaming Lips‘ Womb Gallery in Oklahoma City.Read the rest of this entry »

We are excited to release Julianna Barwick‘s second of two La Blogotheque Takeaway sessions. For this second session, we see Julianna in downtown Reykjavik with her loop machine on Ash Day, an almost equivalent to Halloween in the United States. She offers not only candy but the microphone to children trick-or-treating, their voices falling in with Julianna’s adding to the gorgeous echoes in her performance improvised on the street. Watch the video above or here on Youtube.

As Julianna Barwick continues her dates on tour with Sigur Ros, we deliver up two bits of exciting news.

First, Julianna has premiered a truly beautiful live video of her song “Crystal Lake” via Filter today. Directed by Derrick Belcham and filmed by Belcham and E Lee Smith, the video shows Julianna at her album release show performance at The Judson Church in New York City. Her expanded live setup includes guitarist Scott Bell, special guests violist Rose Nelis, and vocalists Sharon Van Etten, Kate McGuire, Taraka and Nimai Larson (Prince Rama). Watch the nuanced and ethereal performance above or on our YouTube channel here.

Click read more for newly announced West Coast tour dates and info on how to get a hold of Julianna’s recently released album, Nepenthe.